Norka Lucena is a Principal Member of the Technical Staff at Oracle. Prior joining the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Identity team, she developed several Azure services at Microsoft, leading the authentication and authorization implementation for a SPA that managed datacenter operations world-wide serving users from public and private clouds (both federated and not) and a backend authorization service, also supporting multiple clouds. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Syracuse University with focused on protocol steganography and covert channels for private communications.